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Not one day passes without a violent attack against Afrikaner families:

Among the incidents on the independent criminology-website Farmitracker shows daily human-rights violations and physical attacks against Afrikaners and other ethno-European-SA families, invariably carried out by young, armed black males :

An average of eight daily attacks against ‘whites’ were carried out by armed black males this past year:

Eight daily attacks were carried out on average by armed black males against ‘whites’ in the greater-Pretoria/Magalies/Brits/Krugersdorp area this past year: always peaking on December 16: (the Afrikaners’ Day of the Vow commemorations). Twelve attacks were logged on Dec 16 2010; fifteen on Dec 16 2011: so the attacks on the Day of the Vow showed an increase. Hardest-hit among the victims are the working-class, low-income Afrikaner smallholders. Despite the fact that the Afrikaners represent less than 6% of the entire SA population, not one day goes past without at least one attack against an Afrikaner or other ethnic-European family in the old Transvaal region - and these are invariably carried out by young, armed black males, Farmitracker has found. Usually the only items ‘robbed’ are their cellphones to stop them from calling for help.

MAP Greater Pretoria: December 26 2011:

some of the latest attacks below:

Good Samaritarian Mrs Johanna vd Walt stops to report an injured man on the road: waits next to him for an hour, gets him taken to hospital – and then gets confronted at her job by a black cop with angry relatives of the man who accuse her of killing him: life in the New South Africa…

PORT ALFRED, Dec 24 2011 - Good Samaritarian Mrs Johanna vd Walt was confronted by the relatives of a black traffic victim she had found alive lying on Bathhurst Road, Port Alfred, South Africa: the black police detective who is investigating the case showed up with the relatives at her work-place: accused her of killing the man in front of the relatives: who however was alive when an ambulance took him to hospital: and it’s unknown what he died of: Mrs Van der Walt is now terrified of her life. link

New Year’s message from Lita Fourie, the courageous farm-woman whose parents were brutally slaughtered and who then launched the Tabita trauma-treatment fund, to help the many thousands of mutilated, traumatised farm-attack victims in South Africa:

Skilled Durbanville businessman Hein Vercuiel thinks of emigrating from the predominantly “white’ Western Cape suburb of Durbanville in the Tygerberg region near Cape Town -- because of the crime-wave targetting his shop; he told the Afrikaans newspaper ‘Die Burger’ - link

2011-12-31 After two breakins, an armed attack and an assault within 3 months, Durbanville businessman Hein Vercuiel is so desperate that he is considering emigrating. The owner of the E-piphany Fine Arts Gallery uses a unique approach: he sells art-works primarily by young artists together with electronic equipment.

Mr Vercuiel formerly owned the chain-shops Audio-Vision. He said the first big breakin was three months ago, and they got away with R300,000 's worth of equipment. A month ago he was attacked and assaulted by four black men while he was changing his combi's flat tyre: and they stole R100,000's worth of goods."And then I received threats because it was reported in the newspapers.' On December 16 his shop was hit again and about R279,000's worth of goods were looted - and massive damage was caused during both breakins.They stole computers, iPads, plasma-TVs, DVD-masjiene. The gang fled in a white VW Citi Golf . He said the business complex has unarmed security guards."I just don't know if it is still worthwhile to run a business. Such things make you consider emigrating.'He said each time the gang used the identical modus operandi: they break the glass-door by throwing a heavy cement-block through it. It appears the same gang is targetting him each time because they were filmed on closed-circuit TV. Local SAPS spokesman w/o November Filander said the 'cases were reported but nobody was arrested'.

SAPS CRIME STATS FOR Durbanville – from April 2003 to April 2011 there were 77 murders plus 107 culpible homicides; 6,239 burglaries at homes and 91 armed robberies targetting families at Durbanville homes (and since the area includes surrounding wine- and dairy farms, these also include ‘farm attacks’); there were 754 crime-attacks against business-premises by gangs since April 2003 -- for a town housing 27,000 mostly ‘ethno-European residents; that is a very high crime-rate when compared to the WesternEuropean countries their forefathers originated from. It’s also notable for this region that there are very few carjackings or kidnappings – which are predominant and often very violent crimes in Gauteng and KZN provinces.

What is going on in predominantly ‘white’ Durbanville - MAP ABOVE: Theindependent criminology-website farmitracker.com shows that there have been four strange, possibly race-related incidents recorded in Durbanville over the past two years. The suburb ‘s 27,000+ residents are 82.9% ethno-Europeans: i.e. Afrikaners and English-speaking South Africans. The region ‘s language is predominantly Afrikaans. There was an unexplained strangling-death of an elderly Afrikaner woman in an old-age home where nothing was robbed; and police-raids which targetted Afrikaners: one high-publicity police raid on an ‘arms-cache’ on a Durbanville farm which turned out to be plastic display-guns belonging to a young hobbyist; and an assault by Durbanville police-officers on the husband of a local opposition politician. The police statistics do not provide details of the race of the perpetrators nor of the victims; and neither do the SAPS provide information on whether firearms were used in such crimes. Durbanville ‘s municipal area includes surrounding farms but no seperate statistics are maintained on farm-murders.

SAPS CRIME STATS FOR Durbanville – since April 2003 to April 2011, there were 77 murders and 107 culpible homicides; 6,239 burglaries at homes and 91 armed robberies targetting families at Durbanville homes (and since the area includes surrounding wine- and dairy farms, these also include ‘farm attacks’); and 754 crime-attacks against business-premises by gangs; for a town housing 27,000 mostly ‘ ethno-European ’ residents; that is a very high crime-rate when compared to the Western countries their forefathers originated from. It’s also notable that there are very few carjackings or kidnappings – which are predominant crimes in Gauteng and KZN provinces.

The local SAPS’s registration of crimes from April 2003 to April 2011 above, shows that in the 2010/1 bookyear, there were 125 criminal incidents targetting businesses, 241 'commercial crimes'; and a whopping 893 breakins of family-homes – of which 24 were logged as ‘robberies’ and the rest as ‘burglaries’. It can thus be concluded that individually, the families are the most at risk in Durbanville from criminal gangs. Due to the lack of any specific details from the SA police crime reports, for instance the use of firearms, or the race of the victims and perpetrators – all the exact facts remain difficult to ascertain. In other words: local people do not know whether they live in a ‘ safer ‘ or an ‘unsafer’ area of South Africa. SAPS stats for Durbanville:

Durbanville 'arms-cache' - display room of PLASTIC TOY GUNS confiscated by SAPS raid... SABC2 news headlined the find of an arms-cache on a Durbanville farm which much fanfare: but then failed to notice that the police had ‘recovered’ plastic toy guns owned by a young hobbyist. The Durbanville police uses excessive manpower to raid a socalled “arms-cache” especially when they found only plastic display items: the 'suspect' had a hobby-room to display PLASTIC toy guns of AK47s, banners, flags, shop dummy in uniform, PLASTIC TOY replicas of mortars: Sun Jan 16 2011

Black police racist insults at MP'shusband ‘ don’t think you are special because you are white…’ – July 14 2010: Police attacked Stewart, 62, the husband of MP Denise Robertson (DA) in Durbanville, Cape Town, in yet another attack of police brutality. Stewart Robinson, 62, an IT_project manager of the city of Cape Town, had to get his eye-banks stitched up after he was racially abused by black cops and brutally assaulted without any explanations: with the cops shouting at him that he ‘shouldn’t think he was special just because he’s white’. Formal charges were placed at the Durbanville police station. Die Burger newspaper established from the motor-vehicle registration recorded by the victim that it formed part of the Central Cape Town SAPS ‘ crime-prevention unit. Mrs Robinson said her husband was forced off the road Monday 13:00 on Racecourse Road Durbanville by the police vehicle, a Mercedes-Benz-Vito-microbus. He was unable to pull over safely there and continued on to a Total fuel-station. The cops jumped from the vehicle there, and dragged him from his vehicle, and beat him up – breaking his glasses in the process. Eyewitness Johan Smit rushed to help Robinson and demanded to know who they were: and the cops snarled at him and at Robinson: ‘do not think you are special just because you are white’. The cops then climbed back inside the vehicle and drove off.

Durbanville is a rural residential suburb on the northern outskirts of the Cape Town metropolis and is surrounded by farms producing wine and wheat.The majority of the more than 27,000 residents speak Afrikaans as their first language. Among its famous residents are Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Thawte and second self-funded space tourist; Amore Bekker, radio personality, author, MC and columnist; Jody Williams, winner of Idols season 4.

History: it used to be called Pampoenkraal…

Durbanville was founded in the early 19th century around a fresh water spring and was primarily a watering station for travellers betweenCape Town and the interior. Durbanville was originally known as Pampoenkraal (from the Afrikaans words pampoen meaning pumpkin, andkraal meaning corral - an enclosure for livestock).

In 1825 a group of local Afrikaner farmers requested permission from Lord Charles Somerset (governor of the Cape Colony at that time) to build their own church. The Dutch Reformed Church was inaugurated on 6 August 1826. A small village grew between the church and the outspan (the overnight stop for ox-wagons). During 1836 the anti-Boer-Republican Afrikaners who lived in Pampoenkraal at that time, petitioned the British Colonial Governor of the Cape Colony, Sir Benjamin d'Urban, for permission to rename the village D'Urban in his honour. The new name persisted until 1886 when it was renamed to Durbanville in order to avoid confusion with Durban - the port city in the east of South Africa which used to be called Port Natal.

Durbanville already had its own court house, jail and magistrate from the 1870s and became a Magisterial District of Bellville. The court house complex still exists in altered form within the Rust-en-Vrede complex, originally erected in 1850. A village management board was established in 1897 and a municipality in 1901. The first mayor elected was John King. The village grew rapidly after the turn of 19th century and a local wagon industry developed. The King Brothers Wagon Works' used to be South Africa's biggest wagon works. At the turn of the century, it employed more than 200 men, which just about accounted for the entire village.

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Durbanville businessman Hein Vercuiel thinks of emigrating from the predominantly “white’ Western Cape suburb of Durbanville because of the crime-wave targetting his shop; he told the Afrikaans newspaper ‘Die Burger’ - link

2011-12-28 After two breakins, an armed attack and an assault within 3 months, Durbanville businessman Hein Vercuiel is so desperate that he is considering emigrating. The owner of the E-piphany Fine Arts Gallery uses a unique approach: he sells art-works primarily by young artists together with electronic equipment.

Mr Vercuiel formerly owned the chain-shops Audio-Vision. He said the first big breakin was three months ago, and they got away with R300,000 's worth of equipment. A month ago he was attacked and assaulted by four black men while he was changing his combi's flat tyre: and they stole R100,000's worth of goods."And then I received threats because it was reported in the newspapers.' On December 16 his shop was hit again and about R279,000's worth of goods were looted - and massive damage was caused during both breakins.They stole computers, iPads, plasma-TVs, DVD-masjiene. The gang fled in a white VW Citi Golf . He said the business complex has unarmed security guards."I just don't know if it is still worthwhile to run a business. Such things make you consider emigrating.'He said each time the gang used the identical modus operandi: they break the glass-door by throwing a heavy cement-block through it. It appears the same gang is targetting him each time because they were filmed on closed-circuit TV. Local SAPS spokesman w/o November Filander said the 'cases were reported but nobody was arrested'.

SAPS CRIME STATS FOR Durbanville – from April 2003 to April 2011 there were 77 murders plus 107 culpible homicides; 6,239 burglaries at homes and 91 armed robberies targetting families at Durbanville homes (and since the area includes surrounding wine- and dairy farms, these also include ‘farm attacks’); there were 754 crime-attacks against business-premises by gangs since April 2003 -- for a town housing 27,000 mostly ‘ethno-European residents; that is a very high crime-rate when compared to the WesternEuropean countries their forefathers originated from. It’s also notable for this region that there are very few carjackings or kidnappings – which are predominant and often very violent crimes in Gauteng and KZN provinces.

What is going on in predominantly ‘white’ Durbanville - MAP ABOVE: Theindependent criminology-website farmitracker.com shows that there have been four strange, possibly race-related incidents recorded in Durbanville over the past two years. The suburb ‘s 27,000+ residents are 82.9% ethno-Europeans: i.e. Afrikaners and English-speaking South Africans. The region ‘s language is predominantly Afrikaans. There was an unexplained strangling-death of an elderly Afrikaner woman in an old-age home where nothing was robbed; and police-raids which targetted Afrikaners: one high-publicity police raid on an ‘arms-cache’ on a Durbanville farm which turned out to be plastic display-guns belonging to a young hobbyist; and an assault by Durbanville police-officers on the husband of a local opposition politician. The police statistics do not provide details of the race of the perpetrators nor of the victims; and neither do the SAPS provide information on whether firearms were used in such crimes. Durbanville ‘s municipal area includes surrounding farms but no seperate statistics are maintained on farm-murders.

SAPS CRIME STATS FOR Durbanville – since April 2003 to April 2011, there were 77 murders and 107 culpible homicides; 6,239 burglaries at homes and 91 armed robberies targetting families at Durbanville homes (and since the area includes surrounding wine- and dairy farms, these also include ‘farm attacks’); and 754 crime-attacks against business-premises by gangs; for a town housing 27,000 mostly ‘ ethno-European ’ residents; that is a very high crime-rate when compared to the Western countries their forefathers originated from. It’s also notable that there are very few carjackings or kidnappings – which are predominant crimes in Gauteng and KZN provinces.

The local SAPS’s registration of crimes from April 2003 to April 2011 above, shows that in the 2010/1 bookyear, there were 125 criminal incidents targetting businesses, 241 'commercial crimes'; and a whopping 893 breakins of family-homes – of which 24 were logged as ‘robberies’ and the rest as ‘burglaries’. It can thus be concluded that individually, the families are the most at risk in Durbanville from criminal gangs. Due to the lack of any specific details from the SA police crime reports, for instance the use of firearms, or the race of the victims and perpetrators – all the exact facts remain difficult to ascertain. In other words: local people do not know whether they live in a ‘ safer ‘ or an ‘unsafer’ area of South Africa. SAPS stats for Durbanville:

Durbanville 'arms-cache' - display room of PLASTIC TOY GUNS confiscated by SAPS raid...SABC2 news headlined the find of an arms-cache on a Durbanville farm which much fanfare: but then failed to notice that the police had ‘recovered’ plastic toy guns owned by a young hobbyist. The Durbanville police uses excessive manpower to raid a socalled “arms-cache” especially when they found only plastic display items: the 'suspect' had a hobby-room to display PLASTIC toy guns of AK47s, banners, flags, shop dummy in uniform, PLASTIC TOY replicas of mortars: Sun Jan 16 2011

– July 14 2010: Police have attacked MP Denise Robertson (DA) ’s husband Stewart, 62, in Durbanville, Cape Town, in yet another attack of police brutality and corruption. Stewart Robinson, 62, an IT_project manager of the city of Cape Town, had to get his eye-banks stitched up after he was racially abused by black cops and brutally assaulted without any explanations: with the cops shouting at him that he ‘shouldn’t think he was special just because he’s white’. Formal charges were placed at the Durbanville police station. Die Burger newspaper established from the motor-vehicle registration recorded by the victim that it formed part of the Central Cape Town SAPS ‘ crime-prevention unit. Mrs Robinson said her husband was forced off the road Monday 13:00 on Racecourse Road Durbanville by the police vehicle, a Mercedes-Benz-Vito-microbus. He was unable to pull over safely there and continued on to a Total fuel-station. The cops jumped from the vehicle there, and dragged him from his vehicle, and beat him up – breaking his glasses in the process. Eyewitness Johan Smit rushed to help Robinson and demanded to know who they were: and the cops snarled at him and at Robinson: ‘do not think you are special just because you are white’. The cops then climbed back inside the vehicle and drove off. http://www.nuus24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Polisie-slaan-LP-se-man-20100714-Wed Jul 14 2010

Durbanville is a rural residential suburb on the northern outskirts of the Cape Town metropolis and is surrounded by farms producing wine and wheat.The majority of the more than 27,000 residents speak Afrikaans as their first language. Among its famous residents are Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Thawte and second self-funded space tourist; Amore Bekker, radio personality, author, MC and columnist; Jody Williams, winner of Idols season 4.

History: it used to be called Pampoenkraal…

Durbanville was founded in the early 19th century around a fresh water spring and was primarily a watering station for travellers betweenCape Town and the interior. Durbanville was originally known as Pampoenkraal (from the Afrikaans words pampoen meaning pumpkin, andkraal meaning corral - an enclosure for livestock).

In 1825 a group of local Afrikaner farmers requested permission from Lord Charles Somerset (governor of the Cape Colony at that time) to build their own church. The Dutch Reformed Church was inaugurated on 6 August 1826. A small village grew between the church and the outspan (the overnight stop for ox-wagons). During 1836 the anti-Boer-Republican Afrikaners who lived in Pampoenkraal at that time, petitioned the British Colonial Governor of the Cape Colony, Sir Benjamin d'Urban, for permission to rename the village D'Urban in his honour. The new name persisted until 1886 when it was renamed to Durbanville in order to avoid confusion with Durban - the port city in the east of South Africa which used to be called Port Natal.

Durbanville already had its own court house, jail and magistrate from the 1870s and became a Magisterial District of Bellville. The court house complex still exists in altered form within the Rust-en-Vrede complex, originally erected in 1850. A village management board was established in 1897 and a municipality in 1901. The first mayor elected was John King. The village grew rapidly after the turn of 19th century and a local wagon industry developed. The King Brothers Wagon Works' used to be South Africa's biggest wagon works. At the turn of the century, it employed more than 200 men, which just about accounted for the entire village.

Eight daily attacks were carried out on average by armed black males against ‘whites’ in the greater-Pretoria/Magalies/Brits/Krugersdorp area this past year: fifteen attacks on Dec 16 2011. Hardest-hit are the working-class Afrikaner smallholders. Not one day goes past without at least one attack: MAP:

summary of latest attacks:

PORT ALFRED, Dec 24 2011 - Good Samaritan Mrs Johanna vd Walt was confronted by the relatives of a black traffic victim she had found alive lying on Bathhurst Road, Port Alfred, South Africa: the black police detective who is investigating the case showed up with the relatives at her work-place: accused her of killing the man in front of the relatives: who however was alive when an ambulance took him to hospital: and it’s unknown what he died of: Mrs Van der Walt is now terrified of her life. link

'Africa Addio' / 'Farewell Africa' (shot in 1964; released in 1966) is a documentary film about the ongoing genocide of European colonists in Africa, made by the left-wing Italian film directors Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco E. Prosperi. It showed like no other documentary what horrific cruelties the black Africans are capable of if they get the chance. It is a masterpiece with beautiful music, composed by the Italian composer Riz Ortolani. URL LINK

Probably 'Africa Addio' is the best-predicted and most exposing documentary ever made about what happened in several African countries directly after decolonization – and it very accurately predicted what is happening in South African in 2011. The documentary makers also filmed in South Africa in 1964, showing the extraordinarily peaceful society it was back then – and the great prosperity enjoyed by all, including black people.

However because of political correctness the masses never heard of it. In the USA a slanted, censored version called 'Africa Blood and Guts' was released, which was deliberately stripped from the original music and the powerful underlying message of 'Africa Addio' instead the censors stripped it down to only portray the destruction, cruelty, savagery and genocide performed by the Africans as their perceived 'struggle for independence'. Quite rightly, the Italian directors Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco E. Prosperi dissociated themselves from this Hollywood (per-)version of their film.

LUTHULI HOUSE. Statement by Baleka Mbeti, ANC national chairman: "The African National Congress (ANC) has embarked on extensive preparations in the past two years for the centenary celebrations. The celebrations are to mark the 100 years of selfless struggle by the people of South Africa under the leadership of the ANC in its pursuit for freedom, democracy and unity of all South Africans towards an order of entrenched. We are 60 days away from the anticipated January 8 2011 celebration to commemorate the birth of the ANC, the oldest and surviving liberation movement in the continent and African diaspora.The year-long ANC centenary celebrations, will be kick-started at the founding place of the ANC 100 years ago in Waaihoek, Mangaung, in the Free State Province. The weekend long activites will be spread from Friday. 6 to Sunday, 8 January 2012. 6 Jan starts with a golf-day at two golf courses. It will culminate a prize giving by some of the ANC leaders.

All night vigil to invoke the spirits of all our founding fathers and mothers of our movement:

That evening the ANC will then host an all-night vigil to invoke the spirits of all our founding fathers and mothers of our movement. This very important event will be attended by Kings, Chiefs and Traditional Leaders and healers will also include the leaders of the African National Congress and our allied partners.

The ANC’s withcraft-dominated ‘cleansing ceremonies’ are often held on the Afrikaners’ most sacred day: their Day of the Vow:

The ANC holds frequent ‘cleansing ceremonies’ under the guidance of their ‘traditional healers’ and ‘sangomas’ – mainly to ‘cleanse the landscape’ from the presence of the enemies of their forefathers. These ceremonies are often conducted on days which are very meaningful to the Afrikaners and Boers, such as Dec ember 16, 2011, which many hundreds of thousands of Afrikaners still celebrate as the ‘Day of the Vow; to commemorate the vow made to God after a small Boer group of Voortrekkers won against an overwhelming force of Zulu warriors who surrounded them on all sides.

The ANC statement notes that on the night of January 8 2012, there will be what is termed a 6-hour-long 'intercultural' service – which they describe as ‘ showcasing the abundance and diversity of our proud South African national vultures”. It takes place at Bloemfontein ‘s Rocklands outdoor sports complex. That night President Jacob Zuma will host lavish Presidential centennial gala dinner at Free State vista University.

The leadership of the ANC, Alliance partners, Leagues, traditional healers, our stalwarts and veterans will be invited - and only a limited number of international guests.

“The main celebration of the 100 years of the ANC will be held on January 8 2012 at Bloemfontein Rugby stadium and screens for overflow crowds set up at the Cricket Oval stadium, Lochlogan grounds (Macufe venue) and Athletic stadium. We expect over 120,000 people to fill up all the venues for the main 100 years celebration activities from the afternoon to the evening of the 8th. As usual the highlight will be President Comrade Jacob Zuma's delivery of the NEC Centenary statement.An ANC musical special stage production will end the days programme and bring closure to the start of ANC's year-long centennial celebrations.

Year-long celebrations:

The year-long celebrations will take place throughout the year 2012 with monthly events that will be spread in all Provinces. Various Presidents General and Presidents of the ANC, the collectives that led the ANC as well as the issues of the times will be highlighted in these lectures and the debates that they will generate.

January: Free State Province and will focus on the legacy of the first President of the ANC, uBaba uLangalibalele John Dube (Mafukuzela) who presided over the ANC from 1912-1917. President General Dube and the collective that served with him will be celebrated and remembered under the theme "100 years of Selfless Struggles".

February: The life of President General Sefako Mapogo Makgatho and the collective that led the ANC with him from 1917 - 1924. The life and times of President Makgatho will be celebrated under the theme "From Colonialism to Democratic Dispensation". The celebration will be in Western Cape province

March: The life of President General Zacharias R. Mahabane who led the ANC from 1924 - 1927, and was re-elected again in 1936 - 1940. The theme to remember Mahabane and his collective will be "All shall have equal rights". Celebrations will take place in Mpumalanga.

April: The President General of the ANC, Cde Josiah Tshangana Gumede who served as the President of the ANC from 1927 - 1930. The celebration will be under the theme "The people shall govern", which is our national month to mark the first democratic elections in South Africa. Celebrations will take place in Kwa Zulu-Natal.

May 2012: honouring the legacy of Pixley KaIsaka Seme as the President General of the ANC from 1930 - 1936. His legacy will be celebrated under the theme "Workers and the struggle for liberation." Celebrations will take place in Eastern Cape.

June: the Presidency of Albert Bitini Xuma who was the President General of the ANC from 1940 - 1949. It will be celebrated under the theme "The doors of learning and culture shall be opened." Celebrations will take place in Gauteng.

July: the President of the ANC Nelson Rholihlahla Mandela. He led the collective leadership of the ANC as President from period 1991-1997. This living world-renowned icon will be celebrated under the theme "Building a caring nation". Celebrations will take place in Limpopo.

August: We will remember ANC President General James Sebe Moroka who served the ANC for the period 1949 - 1952. His contribution will be acknowledged under the theme "Women and the struggle for liberation". Celebrations will take place in North West.

September: will acknowledge President General Chief Albert Luthuli. He served the movement from 1952 - 1967. He will be acknowledged under the theme "African Heritage and Art". Celebrations will take place in Northern Cape.

October: pays homage to President Oliver Tambo. Tambo served the movement for a record breaking period since 1967 - 1991. He will be saluted for his unprecedented dedicated leadership under the theme "International Solidarity". Having been entrusted by the ANC with the complex challenge to open up its external mission, he set off into the world and mobilised it to support our people's struggle. Celebrations will take place in all provinces, with a focus in Gauteng.

November: pays respect to President Thabo Mbeki who served the movement from 1997 - 2007. He will be remembered under the theme "Let a 100 flowers blossom." Celebrations will take place in all provinces, with a focus in `Western Cape.

December honours our current President Jacob Zuma. He started serving the movement since 2007 and is still the president of the ANC and people of South Africa. Zuma will be saluted under the theme "Peace, freedom and security." Celebrations will take place in all provinces, with a focus in Free State.

-- A lot has been done in the past two years to prepare ourselves for the celebration of our 100 years. A National Centenary Task Team (NCTT) was formed whilst in all the Provinces and Regions, Provincial Centenary Task Teams and Regional Centenary Task Teams were established. In these structures that are seized with the preparatory work for the year long celebrations as well as the mobilizations of all South Africans.

People in the continent, as well as people in the world over will also be part of our 100 years anniversary activities. We have also commissioned work on the writing of the history of the ANC by Comrade Marc Maharaj and Comrade Pallo Jordan. We expect the book to be ready for publication before the end of the centennial year.

“We are proud to pronounce that a lot of work has been put into this by our Provincial structures such that the Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga, Free State and North West have already launched their 2012 ANC centennial celebrations chapters. The remaining provinces of Gauteng, Northern and Western Cape as well as Limpopo will launch their chapters next month.”

International invitations:

At the international level we have already addressed the Heads of States of the African Union through our President in January 2011. We are also proud to have been given an opportunity by the United Nations to address them on our Centenary, the occasion in which the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, proudly declared that "The ANC is more than a political party. It is a movement-and a tangible expression of a vision. The commitment and sacrifice of its members led to the emancipation of a nation from a racist colonial rule. This has always been the movement's strength and it is this vision that the world looks to now. The struggle for freedom, justice, human rights and against racism is a global battle. I see the ANC in the vanguard. Not just in South Africa but throughout the continent and the globe."

“We have undertaken visits to many countries including Germany, Russia as well as the United States of America to mobilize our friends and allies who were also part of the International anti-apartheid movement. Apart from welcoming centenary coordinating structures in those countries as well as the support that those coordinating structures will give to the ANC, we will also use the opportunity to thank the International community for the support it has given to the people of South Africa and the ANC.

As part of our programme in 2012 we will host an International Solidarity Conference where former anti-apartheid organisations and individuals throughout the world will converge on our soil to craft a way forward.We are also aware that at an ANC-led government level, our country will in May 2012 host a conference to be attended by the African Diaspora. We are proud that this event will take place when we celebrate our 100 years.

“As we celebrate the centenary of the ANC we want the broad society of South Africa o join in and be part of the celebrations because the legacy of the ANC is the legacy of the people of South Africa! Let us intensify our commitment and resolve of ‘Unity in Diversity'. A South African nation will be born if we are all committed to this founding value of our people who were the true midwives of the ANC and the freedom it led us into.” (end of propaganda statement).

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '